A control order is only useful where the police have sufficient intelligence about a person’s activity to apply for an order.

The new laws would make it easier for authorities to prevent people fighting in foreign conflicts, as happened to this man arrested in December for allegedly attempting to travel to Syria.
AAP/Australian Federal PoliceSeptember 24, 2014

The Abbott government has today introduced the second tranche of its national security amendments – the Counter-Terrorism Legislation Amendment (Foreign Fighters) Bill 2014 – into the Senate. As its name…